Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: hooks and remote archives

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Marc Martinez <address@hidden>

    > On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 01:59:59PM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
    > > That'd be the simplest thing and the `archive-snapshot' command is
    > > designed to make it easy to use `make(1)' to write such a job.  For

    > before I start off to the land of a thousand curse words, I thought
    > I'd check in here and see if anybody has a Makefile designed for use
    > with 'archive-snapshot' or can give me some brief pointers in how to
    > proceed with a from-scratch implementation.

    > is it reccomended to use one single Makefile with text-chopping logic
    > to figure out archive, category, branch, version boundaries, or multiple
    > template type files that get copied into the subdirectories, etc..

    > if all else fails I'll just do the deed in perl I guess, just wanted
    > to see what the reccomended path looked like before I went off on my
    > own.


You're the first, as far as I know.

My very high-level advice is:   _relax_.   I'm confident that there's
a tiny, simple, yet clever solution.   It's a puzzle.   Have fun.

You loose 1/10th of a karma-point in the grand
ledger-that-nobody-reads for using perl :-)

You get a free-pass though, for using features of GNU make, on the
score-sheet-that-nobody-cares-about.


-t